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June 16, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2008, Monday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, so welcome back.
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June 10th, 2004, Tim Russett called in.
We uh talked to him for the whole hour on the uh on the program about his book.
Uh his upcoming book uh on his uh on his father, uh Big Russ.
And I wanted to play these, it's about ten minutes total here, and I wanted to play these uh uh sound bites.
Uh to give you a flavor for Tim Russet off the air.
Tim Russert uh uh the the the guy that he was.
Uh we'll talk a little bit about politics too here, and in these bites, uh you'll you'll hear uh uh one of the reasons why Tim Russard was loved and and and respected by all uh in terms of in terms of politics.
Uh yeah, he was a liberal and he was a Democrat, but he had uh he was a student of politics as well, and he loved it, and he actually respected the people in it.
He didn't look at them as suspects.
Now I was watching M M SNBC coverage over the weekend some.
I you know, just tune in just to see what are they doing now.
And they would go get clips from uh from Tim and his past work.
And for example, they'd they'd get a clip of uh Russard interviewing McCain with McCain saying he doesn't know anything about economics.
They clearly after five o'clock on Friday, the coverage of Tim Russert's death ceased to be about Tim and it became about the media.
Now I'm not talking about Meet the Press yesterday because I didn't see it.
I I'm strictly talking about the cable gang.
We played to you the or for you the clip from Chris Matthews trying to blame Bush and the Iraq war and and lying to Tim Russert in order to get the war started and prosecuted.
And I I told Snerdley when we were leaving here Friday, I said, You watch is not going to be long before somebody on that network, uh, and I predicted somebody other than Matthews, somebody on that network is gonna blame Bush for Russert's death, lying to him and causing all kinds of stress in the journalist community and this sort of thing.
And Chris Matthews got pretty damn close to fulfilling my prediction on uh Friday night.
So here's here's the uh the first of the two bites again, June 10th of 2004.
You know, Tim, before you um appeared at one o'clock today, I was telling the audience of the of the dinner we had at Shula Steakhouse down here at PGA when you were telling me about this book, and we shared stories about about uh uh fathers and and parents, and you were really excited about doing this book.
You were really you were down here with Luke, something about golf lessons, I think for him.
Yep.
And uh I I re I've I've I've I've I've read the book and you tell a story about uh you you went back home after achieving a level of success and you wanted to buy your dad a car.
It was my dad's 75th birthday, Rush, and I sent uh Big Russ catalogs a Lexus catalog and uh uh Mercedes catalog and a Cadillac catalog, and I said, you know, Dad, as you would say, top shelf.
You you've never had a new car, you always had used cars, or I guess they call them pre-owned now.
Um and I flew home to Buffalo for Thanksgiving, and I said, Well, let's let's go get it.
He said, get in the car, let's go.
He drove two blocks.
And uh all of a sudden we pulled in the driveway and there's a big sign, Jack Atkins Ford.
I said, What is this?
And a guy appeared in the doorway in a Buffalo Bills windbreaker.
He said, There's Charlie.
He said, Charlie, here's the kid.
Show him the car.
We walked into the showroom, and there it is.
A black Ford Crown Victoria.
I said, Dad, it's a cop car.
And Big Russ said, Charlie, show him that trunk.
Look at that.
You can put a case of beer in a suitcase in that.
Charlie, show him the spare.
That's not a donut.
That's a real spare.
So we got the car, we drove it off the lot, and and I were heading home, and I said, Dad, I have to ask you, you know, y uh you could have had Alexis or Mercedes.
Why a Crown Vic?
He pulled over to the side of the road and put the car in park, which is a big deal for Big Russ to stop driving.
He said, I beat those guys in the war.
I don't want Alexis from Mercedes.
I said, Oh, okay.
I said, How about a Cadillac?
He said, You want me to drive home to our neighborhood?
Big spanking new Cadillac.
And the neighbors say, Ah, Big Russ's kid made it on MBC and now he's showing off.
He said, That's not who I am.
I'm a Ford Crown Vick guy.
Even in receiving a gift rush, he was teaching me a lesson.
Well, the reason that story resonates, I don't mean to intrude on your story, but something similar happened to me.
Uh uh, I bought my when I could finally do it, I bought my mom and dad a new car.
They they wanted a Ford Taurus.
And I and so I got him sorry, and it was the happiest day of their lives.
They could never believe anybody would do something like this.
And later on, I wanted to get my mom a bigger car, and I tried to get her Lincoln town car.
And she she just I I did.
I insisted on it for safety.
She didn't want it.
She wanted a Taurus for much the same kind of of reasons that you've described with your with your father here.
And it was I you know, it they were they were a um a unique, unique generation of people.
They were they had to grow up a slot sooner than their kids did, and they had to learn there were things bigger themselves uh than themselves a lot sooner uh than I did or than uh most of uh my generation did.
And it was uh i I actually studied, paid attention to them as they were bringing me up in case I was ever going to have to do it myself.
Well, you know, the the operating thesis of my book is the older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
And here's somebody who grew up in a depression, left school in the tenth grade to go fight in World War II, involved in terrible plane crash, B-24 Liberator, six months in the hospital, then came home and started a second mission.
He worked two full-time jobs as a sanitation man and a truck driver, and he never whined and he never complained.
He would say, put your nose to the grindstone and hope for the best.
And to him, work ethic, hard work, and and up and and optimism, they they were the two stools that he stood on all through his life.
Now, is is this book a tribute to him or uh uh or is it is there a reason you want people to read this other than your dad?
I mean, I mean obviously you want people to read it, but what do you hope people take away from it?
I understand.
It's it's an affirmation of his life, but it's it but it's more than that.
And it and I call it Big Russ and me, Father and Son Lessons of Life.
Because all the lessons my dad taught me about hard work, about discipline, about preparation, about faith, about recountability, about responsibility, those are as just as applicable now as they were to me in the 50s and 60s.
I have a son, as you mentioned, eighteen years old.
After I wrote the book, Rush, I reread it, and I realized I had written it as much for my son as for my dad.
And so I added a new chapter, an open letter for my son, who goes off to college in the fall.
And I because Luke's life is different than mine.
He's growing up in Washington with more opportunity and more privilege, more access.
But I say in the book, Luke, his grandpa would say, the world doesn't owe you a favor.
Or put it this way, you're always, always loved, but you're never, never entitled.
And that's the thesis of the book.
That in this country, the son of a garbage man can sit and interview George W. Bush in the Oval Office.
It's all reachable.
It's all doable.
But there's no shortcuts.
It's hard work, preparation, discipline, accountability.
When my dad retired from his first job rush, I drove him to turn in his pension papers, and the clerk said, Mr. Russett, you have two hundred sick days.
I said, Dad, two hundred sick days.
Why didn't you take them?
He said, Because I wasn't sick.
And that's who we were.
Exactly.
Rush, these guys survived the depression, won World War II, and came home and built the greatest middle class in the history of mankind.
Tim Russell, June 10th, 2004.
Um we busted up this by just to avoid going ten minutes in total length, but here is the uh the second portion from the interview.
We are back with Little Russ, the son of Big Russ, Tim Russett, uh and his book about his father.
Say, Tim, um you you yeah, you mentioned Luke, and I had to abbreviate the uh the question prior to the end of the segment because there wasn't enough time to get your answer to it.
What I was going to ask you about Luke and his and his relationship with your father.
Um there's a there's a great age difference there, a generational divide.
Is Luke get your dad?
Does he ever?
And my dad now, because he's eighty and retired finally, um when he grew up, she was always working.
And so he didn't uh he was someone I would learn from the from the eloquence of his hard work.
He was not demonstrative and affectionate and those kinds of things as they are now viewed upon.
But the relationship with with Luke is much different.
He uh he Luke w runs to him when he sees him, sits down next to him, like my dad's got you know bear hugs for him and punching them and wrestling with him, and then they talk, and they talk and talk and talk.
And he opens up to Luke.
Luke asks him questions about the depression, about World War II.
And now, after I wrote this book, most of the things that I do and meet the press, they go up in the air on a satellite, and there's no permanence to them.
This book has given such permanence to my relationship with my dad, my relationship with my son, but most important, my son's relationship with my dad, his grandpa.
And he said, Dad, now I really he goes, I had no idea he that what grandpa did in terms of the jobs, garbage man and truck driver.
I said, Luke, in one word, how would you describe what grandpa did for me?
He said, Sacrifice.
And he's exactly right.
And this Father's Day, 2004.
I I hope that everyone who's had a chance to read this book will really take out just a few minutes after Dad's no longer with us, just close their eyes and think about that one word.
These guys sacrificed everything for us.
When I said to my father, Dad, two jobs.
Two jobs.
I mean, how could he said some guys couldn't find one?
Dad, six months in a hospital from a plane crash, that had to be tough.
It was tougher for the guys who died.
That innate optimism just galvanized them to sacrifice, and I just want to thank him and thank all the dads out there who made us what we are.
I stand on his shoulders.
I hope my son will stand on mine proudly, just as proudly someday.
That's that's what I was talking about earlier.
Life is never about him.
I mean it two jobs is what it took.
What's the big deal?
Right.
He's he was doing what he had to do.
He wasn't trying to impress anybody.
He wasn't trying to attract attention, he was trying to fulfill a responsibility.
And he did what whatever it took.
Obviously, you're proud of your dad and you're you've written this this uh this tribute to him and it's become what it's become.
Uh what about your dad and you?
You've reached a pinnacle too, and I'm sure you have done better uh than any parent would expect a child to do.
We all hope parents all hope children do well, but you've reached a pinnacle.
How has that affected him and when did he know, Tim, that you were on to something that was special in terms of his perspective?
Probably when he thirteen years ago when I started Meet the Press and he began to watch a program with his son on that he had watched since he was a a person growing up in the fifties and sixties with Lawrence Spivak.
And then he saw me with the Pope.
And that was very, very important to him.
Uh he saw the Pope blessing his grandson and his son.
Uh Rush, I call him every day, and but on particularly on Mondays are my favorites.
My political friends say that Big Russ is the cheapest and most accurate focus group they could have.
Because he sees right through it.
And if Big Russ calls you a phony, you're finished.
A guy's a phony.
And that and that doesn't mean it's ideological.
It's uh whether you are willing to answer questions truthfully or honestly.
You're f can you give us some names of some phonies as identified by Big Russ.
They won't come back on my program.
That's the problem.
But he also says, Rush, every Monday we conclude our conversation, and I say, you know, take care of Daddy.
He said, I still can't believe they pay you all this money to BS on the air.
Um he just keeps me right grounded right there.
He knows exactly it.
You'll love this.
He came up he was in Buffalo and the NBC came up and do it did an interview with us on the book, and there's a chapter I have on food.
My dad loves food.
And the subtitle is You Gotta Eat.
He'll call you on your birthday, seven o'clock in the morning.
Happy birthday.
What do you have for dinner?
I said, Dad, I haven't had you know breakfast yet.
No, you gotta eat, you gotta eat.
So uh uh the interviewer said to to Big Russ, where'd this phrase you gotta eat come from, Big Russ?
He said, Well, my kid got it half right.
Oh, my heart sank.
You know, here's my book.
I poured my heart into it, and here's my dad correcting me.
He said, I actually got the expression from Dr. Matty Burke, who used to teach me, you gotta eat if you're gonna drink.
That's big Russ.
Well, I mean, there's a guy that's honest from the front and back.
Exactly right.
That's Tim Russert.
We've got one more sound bite in which I asked him.
We'll have it after the break, who's gonna do this when he no longer does it?
Meet the press.
Back after this.
Final soundbite now from the um interview we have with Tim Russell, June tenth, two thousand four.
When you get to your rank, uh succession becomes something that's often discussed.
You will eventually become president of the news division of NBC.
Who will you hire to replace you as a moderator at Meet the Press?
You you couldn't give me that job, Rush.
Believe me.
I I I've in 2000 I signed a twelve year contract to through two thousand twelve to be the moderator of Meet the Press, period.
I I unlike a lot of other people in television who want to go into prime time and do all these other things, I don't want to do anything else.
I want to play for the same team my whole life.
My favorite baseball player growing up was Yogi Berra.
This small Italian kid who didn't look like a baseball player uh who just got it done and won championships, played for the Yankees his whole life.
I don't look like I belong on TV.
But I try to get it done, and I want to do my job the rest of my life, and then so be it.
Uh if I got hit by a truck tomorrow, I who who would take who should take over?
That's a good question.
What do you think, Rush?
Um I haven't thought about it.
And all candidates why I asked you.
You are such a fixture, I don't see anybody else in that chair.
Well, thanks.
I mean, should I nominate him?
Look, Tim, I appreciate that would fly.
You ought to try it, Tim.
See what happens to you.
Nominate me.
That's Tim Russert from June 10th, uh 2004 on this program.
During that uh it I might have been another interview.
I'm not sure which.
But I uh I think it was it must have been another interview.
I asked him what he thought of the Reagan funeral.
Because it had occurred just prior to our discussion, and I think it was this interview.
And the way he described the Reagan interview, uh the Reagan funeral and what it uh meant to him and what it taught him about how beloved a figure Reagan was in the country, when most people in Washington were shocked by that.
And he openly talked about about that.
It was he ha he understood who Reagan was.
He went through the whole litany of Reagan's successes, why he was a great president.
It was uh it was just uh a wonderful thing to hear.
But he was he was uh up to speed on everything that was happening in Washington and uh and in the country.
And he's he's he's one of a kind.
I mean, there is nobody they can put in that chair to replace him.
There just isn't.
They don't have anybody, they haven't been cultivating anybody.
That there's I mean, what do you realize?
Do you know the story of Tim Russert getting this job?
He had worked for Cuomo, and somehow he uh he ended up uh uh in the executive suite in New York at 30 Rocket NBC.
I think it was Lawrence Grossman then who hired him.
And at the time, Meet the Press was a was uh had a moderator and three journalists versus the one politician who was the guest, and I think it was Lawrence Spivak who was the last one, maybe Garrick Utley, and out of the blue, Michael Gartner, who was running NBC at the time, said, Tim, we want you to do this show.
He had never been on television.
The reason they wanted him to do the show was that you know these the NBC has executive meetings every morning in the president's suite, and they served breakfast in there, and Russert would go into those meetings and just dazzle everybody with inside information on politics and issues and what was coming down the pike and what he knew.
And it was from those meetings where he was just entertaining the group before the meetings got started, that Michael Gartner said, you know, why don't you why don't you host meet the press?
And he said, No way.
I've never been a you look at my face, it looked like I've been carved out of a potato.
No way.
And they finally, in in 1991, he started working NBC, I think in 84, 88.
In 1991, they asked him to do it, and uh he did it, and I first met him in 1992 in Houston at a party at the Republican convention that the uh that the Novak Evans and Novak threw.
Uh and the th the first thing I noticed about Tim Russert, and I put this on our website on Friday afternoon, he had this perpetual smile built onto his face.
Every time you saw Tim Russert, he was smiling.
It was just permanently etched on his face.
Russert was the guy who asked me to join him and broke off for election night coverage in the 2002 midterms.
That was no other network would have ever, ever done that.
And he got a lot of heat from uh from inside the drive-by media circles uh at the time.
It had a lot of oil.
Yes, it did.
It it got a lot of audience.
Uh and he was the you know, it invited me on Meet the Press.
Uh this was this was uh revolutionary.
And then he turned that program into his, you know he he didn't he was not a moderator.
I mean, he he became a prosecutor in essence and totally redid the format of uh of that program.
He was uh he he treated he treated everybody the same.
Nobody was any better than anybody else, and he is gonna the impossible.
There There's nobody that we know of that could replace him.
Like he was not known when he replaced Speedback.
On Friday, ladies and gentlemen, we uh we reported to you that Countrywide Financial, the home mortgage bunch, largest mortgage lender at the center of the uh the housing crisis, regularly gave loans on favorable terms to prominent lawmakers and former cabinet members.
The preferential treatment for senators included Democrat Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and a recent presidential candidate, was approved by Angelo Mazzillo, the chief executive of Countrywide Financial.
The Washington Post then reported on this on Saturday.
Condon asked Portfolio Magazine first broke the story on Wednesday, saying the recipients of the favour terms were known as friends of Angelo in internal company documents and uh and emails.
Kent Conrad also received favorable uh mortgage interest rates from uh from countrywide.
And now the story is today, by the way, that uh Kent Conrad, the Senate budget committee chairman, said he's donating $10,500 to charity and refinancing his loan on an apartment building after reviewing documents, showing he received special treatment from Countrywide Financial Corp.
Conrad said it appears that Countrywide waived one point on his mortgage for a Bethany Beach Delaware vacation home.
He said he would donate the equivalent amount of money to Habitat for Humanity.
So once again, Kent Conrad, among the smartest 100 guys in government, sitting up there not knowing that he got a favorable preferential loan from Countrywide.
He read about it in a newspaper with Shazam, and he looked at his loan ducks and Shazam again.
And so I'm gonna donate that money to charity.
Uh these guys are out running around now saying that uh all these guys, they had no clue.
Here, they're being called the Countrywide Six.
And here are the names of politicians, ladies and gentlemen with favorable mortgage rates from countrywide.
Jim Johnson, former chief of Fannie Mae, Obama advisor, longtime Democrat Party hack.
He had to quit from the Obama campaign.
He was not the Jim Johnson Obama knew.
Franklin Reigns, former chairman, chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, who served as Clinton's budget director, and retired from Fannie May to uh halt a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into accounting regularities, irregularities while he was there.
Donna Shalila, the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, who in 1993, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, along with several other groups, filed a lawsuit against her over closed door meetings related to Hillary Care, socialized hair health care plan, and since leaving the administration was embroiled in scandals at the University of Florida due to her extravagant lifestyle.
She was just awarded the Medal of Honor last week by President Bush.
But she got a favorable loan.
Richard Holbrook, former UN ambassador, assistant Secretary of State, who, as U.N. ambassador, ignored whistleblower reports about the infamous oil for food scandals.
Then there is Senator Chris Dodd, who oversees the U.S. mortgage industry as chairman of the banking committee, and Kent Conrad, who we have spoken of.
The countrywide six, as dubbed by John Bender at Interstagerite.com.
It's interesting that the Wall Street Journal has now gotten into the act on this.
The Wall Street Journal is suggesting here that this be investigated.
For the sake of its shareholders and taxpayers, who are ultimately on the hook, Fannie May should immediately launch an internal investigation into the terms offered to Countrywide.
Because I forgot to mention to you, uh the Congress, Pelosi and these Democrats are offering Legislation to bail out the mortgage industry and some borrowers, a $300 million deal to bail out some of these lenders as well, and countryside's one of them.
And so the Wall Street Journal said, wait a minute.
We need to launch an investigation into the terms offered to countrywide and exactly what roles Mr. Johnson and Mr. Reigns played in the negotiation of these terms.
Did these men exert any pressure on Fannie Mae employees to do business with countrywide?
They also say that Congress needs a full accounting of the contacts between countrywide and the politicians receiving favors from the lender.
Did countrywide ask for and receive assistance from the friends of Angelo?
With Senate banking chairman Dodd at the center of the scandal, ranking member Richard Shelby and House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank will have to lead the inquiry.
The taxpayers should not have to wait for the results of an investigation.
Democrats in Congress are trying to pass a bailout for mortgage borrowers and lenders like countrywide, and they have been holding reform of Fannie Mae and its cousin Freddie Mack hostage to get President Bush to agree to it.
Dodd's one of the main hostage takers.
It's time that he and Barney Frank drop this political ransom taking and finally subjected Fanny and Freddie to tough oversight.
Meanwhile, until it's clear how much countrywide will benefit from Senator Dodd's proposed $300 billion mortgage rescue, and exactly how Mr. Dodd came to do business with countrywide.
Congress should call a halt to legislating bailouts taxpayers deserve no less.
Now, an interesting question here.
I mean, this this guy's in the Senate when this is happening.
He's the Democrat presidential nominee.
Where's Obama in this?
Folks, the Democrats who are out there just ripping these predatory lenders all to hell and proposing bailouts, got sweetheart loans from countrywide.
Democrats, every one of them.
And I thought it was the culture of corruption that sent the Republicans to the minority in the November 2006 elections.
Here is Barbara in uh where we go, Eckworth, Georgia.
Barbara, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, hi.
I'm a native of North Dakota.
I haven't lived there for twenty years, but I consider it my home, and I am fear about Senator Conrad's sweetheart deal.
And I was reading in the paper today, it's associated press story that he said he did not think for one moment, and that no one ever suggested that he was getting special treatment.
But my question is why you call a CEO of a company to get a common mortgage loan.
And how do you get that number?
Not only that, he there's a story also in the AP that Conrad had no clue.
Conrad Conrad uh Conrad had no clue that he got in this loan.
He just now, after the stories hit, happened to be reviewing the loan papers, and he saw that that countrywide whacked a percentage point off of his rate.
So he is going to send the equivalent $10,500 to a charity.
Well, I think the people of North Dakota, since he works for them, and he used his position to better himself that they need to call Conrad's office and demand that he work for them also and get them a sweetheart deal.
Well, I think this is terrible.
I do too.
And it's typical, is it not?
These people getting sweetheart deals, they sit along as innocent bystanders and spectators.
They are the reason this whole thing happened in the first place.
Congress passed legislation back during the Clinton years demanding that lenders make money available to people that really were low risk or high risk and had very little ability to pay it back, particularly on adjustable rate mortgages.
And then when the adjustable rate got adjusted upwards, why these poor people were they had no clue what they had signed.
Excuse me, who does not know what ARM stands for?
What does adjustable rate mortgage just how much of an education do you not have in order to not know what adjustable rate mortgage is when the lender tells you?
And so this whole thing got started by Congress.
Now they sit around and accept their sweetheart deals and then act like they had no clue.
Can I just tell you one more thing?
My 81-year-old mother thought the uh news world revolved around Tim Ruthard, and she was devastated on Saturday and called all of us that were around his age to say, take care of yourself, please.
So because I think that my news world revolves around you, consider this my phone call to you.
Well, thank you.
Take care of yourself.
I I yeah, I appreciate that very much.
I've had uh uh you're you're not first in line, let me assure you, but uh you're the first to call me on the program to do that, and I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
All right, thank you, Barbara.
Quick timeout.
We've got to take a break.
Uh no, let me grab this call first.
We I had Cookie get the uh segment of the interview discussing the Reagan funeral with Russert, and uh want you to hear this uh after the break.
But first, uh this is Ron in Wichita.
Hello, sir, glad you waited.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, Rush.
Regarding the Bob Beckle comment regarding the rumor that he'd heard that he he thought was really a big threat.
You know about the quickest way to tell them somebody's lying is when they overemphasize their statement.
Uh a little bit too much drama involved.
First time I heard Bob Beckle say that, the first thing it rang in my head, Hillary Clinton supporter.
Somebody starts a rumor.
Bob Beckle instantiates the rumor.
For the benefit of Hillary Clinton.
Well, but the thing is, I think, and I'm gonna have to double check this.
I think that Beckle's in the tank for Obama.
And I think I think Beckle's been in a tank for Obama in a while, but I'm not sure.
That's that's my my that's my memory.
I'm gonna have to check that.
I think you could be right if my memory's wrong.
If if I'm right, he had another purpose.
And his purpose was specifically to rope in conservatives to spread the thing around, uh, using his imprimatur as credibility for it.
Sure, sure, yeah.
Thereby allowing the Obama camp to then walk around trying to discredit all these conservatives when it uh in other words, it was a trap.
It was a trap that that that that Beckle was laying.
I think that's what was uh going on.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Hi, and welcome back.
I'm gonna have to save this Russert mate, talking about the uh Reagan funeral till tomorrow.
It is uh I can't break it up.
I I can't edit it or would lose some of its uh zeal is longer than we have left.
Laguna Beach, California.
Gene, glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, you are the man.
I I do want to say about this Whitey uh tape.
What do I care about uh somebody saying something about Whitey Michelle Obama?
She's made so many uh horrible statements about uh change, Barack will make you change.
First time being proud of our country, America's a mean country.
I think this is all a democratic effort to inoculate her so that the statements which that she's already made uh that uh everything will be dismissed.
Well, it's it's not you're you're exactly right, but it's there's another step to this.
Not only is it to inoculate her and Barack, it is to frighten and and intimidate people like me from refraining from criticizing her any at all in the future for fear that the the uh the hell of the drive-by media and the Obama campaign will rain down on us.
What they don't understand, what I've tried to tell them and they still won't understand, the people in the drive-by media did not make me.
The AP had nothing to do with building me up and making people interested in me.
I did that.
The AP can't destroy me.
Obama can't destroy me, not with news coverage anyway.
Uh fairness doctrine, you know, restrictive on free speech rights, Obama could do that.
But he the media is not gonna be able to intimidate anybody here.
In fact, the AP, get this.
I just read this.
The AP has just issued a new policy prohibiting bloggers or setting guidelines on bloggers for what they can use on their blogs from AP.
Now it's being disguised as hey, you bloggers aren't paying us for this.
You and the fair usage, you're you're vastly exceeding what's available for fair usage.
But this is this is uh th this is an all-out war now.
And the bloggers are probably screw you, ABC.
We're not gonna mention you, period then.
Well, that's not gonna go for me.
I'm gonna keep mentioning AP, but they're not they're not gonna intimidate me.
But I think that in addition to inoculating uh everybody or her, Gene, they're trying to also intimidate people into just not talking about her.
They know they've got a problem with her.
They know they've got a huge she just goes off the handle and says things and they don't know what is gonna be next.
They are surrounding her with a new staff of uh of of of women that are just they just hired Patty Solese Doyle from the Clinton campaign.
Uh you know, how do you how do you handle Michelle by Bell?
You surround her.
Democrat operative Stephanie Cutter joining the Obama campaign, senior advisor chief of staff to Michelle Obama Cutter, a longtime aide to Senator Kennedy, served as communications director to Senator Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign.
Her role underscores a growing concern with the campaign and among outside allies that Michelle's becoming a lightning rod for the opposition.
So they basically surrounded her with a woman that's going to put duct tape on her mouth.
And whenever they want her to speak, they're going to give her the script and say, Do you promise to stick to it?
And if Michelle My Bell says that she nods her head yes, then it ripped the duct tape off.
And then it'll send her out to speak.
They know.
They know that they have a uh a big problem.
Hey, folks, before I get out.
Brian, when is when is when is the uh the the Astra coming from General Motors?
We get it Wednesday.
GM is bringing us their latest car for us the tool around in the Saturn Astra.
And this is, by the way, it you ought to you ought to look at this on the website.
It is it is based on one of General Motors' best selling European models.
In fact, it it is one of it, I think it's one of the biggest selling executive vehicles used by executives in Europe.
The uh the Saturn Astra.
It's got 30 miles to the gallon.
Uh it it's uh got this automatic transition that uh that puts you into neutral immediately when you go to a stoplight so as to save on gas uh and emissions.
It's called neutral idle technology.
When the car stops at a light, the transmission shifts to neutral automatically saving gas.
And then you don't have to shift, you just bam, you just hit the gas when the light turns green and you peel out.
Uh they have models, more models, though they have an EPA estimated 30 miles per gallon or better on the highway than any other manufacturer.
But this thing is cool and is going to be here Wednesday.
Uh we we just sadly for us, we had to turn in the Tahoe Tybrig hybrid.
Uh but this is the uh this is the replacement.
You can see more information on the Saturn Astra at rushlimbaugh.com.
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Marty in Washington, D.C., nice to have you here, sir.
Forty-five seconds, but I wanted to get to you.
Thanks, Rush.
I don't know if you already said it, but I think the highest compliment you can pay Tim Russell is if it wasn't for him, Hillary'd be the presumptive uh presidential nominee right now.
Driver's licenses, illegal driver's licenses question.
That's at the debate in uh in Philadelphia.
That's exactly right.
What other drive I would have had the stones to ask a question to Rush Limbaugh wanted to know.
And you gotta honestly, you gotta think that, you know, I'm sure her press secretary issued some kind of syrupy condolence, but you gotta believe right now she's sitting there thinking, damn, he died six months too late.
Well, now we don't know what's in Mrs. Clinton's mind.
No, no, no.
We we we uh gotta go to a brief timeout here.
We don't know what she's thinking.
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